Archive | August 7, 2012

Great music of 2012: the (slightly past) halfway check-in, part 2

by on August 7, 2012 in Music & Popular Culture, TunesDay

Let’s see, who else are we loving so far in 2012? Ah, here’s one. Ryan Shaw: Real Love – I’ve been a fan of Shaw’s since … well, since I first heard him maybe three years ago. Gods, what a voice. I have argued that had he come along in the mid-1960s we’d now be remembering […]

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Saving journalism must also save an audience that doesn't give a damn

by on August 7, 2012 in American Culture, Education, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Journalism, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, United States

Every 10 minutes, it seems, somebody dredges up from the miasma of past moribund media strategies the idea that will save journalism. But such ideas are too often about saving the business of journalism — and that’s a much different conundrum to consider than what truly ails the fractured relationship between journalism and democracy. As […]

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August and everything after

by on August 7, 2012 in Personal Narrative

By Patrick Vecchio My high school friend Bob and I used to go fishing every summer in the river that runs through our town. We had no jobs and no pocket money, but fishing was free. On the way home one August day on the path beside the river, we used Bob’s German boot knife […]

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